INVITATION: Rethinking Schools 40th Anniversary Celebration, Monday October 5th, Workers Defense Project at 5:30 PM CST

 Friends:

For forty years, Rethinking Schools has been so much more than a publication. It has been a source of courage, imagination, intellectual nourishment, and community for educators committed to creating schools worthy of our children and our democracy. Again and again, its pages have reminded us that teaching is never simply about transmitting knowledge; it is also about helping young people understand their world, recognize their own dignity and histories, and imagine how that world might be made more just. It is a joy to celebrate this remarkable legacy—and especially meaningful to do so at a moment when the principled, justice-centered work of Rethinking Schools is needed as urgently as ever. 

If you're in Austin on Monday evening, do consider attending this celebration at 5:30 PM at the Workers Defense Project per Larry Miller's invitation below. As you can see, curriculum writer Courtney Wai will speak on her important work in South Texas connecting WW II internment camps and Chicana/Chicano  civil rights based in Crystal City. Sounds awesome already.

-Angela Valenzuela

Rethinking Schools is dedicated to sustaining and strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism. This work is more important than ever, given the attacks educators and students are facing. 

Rethinking Schools

In honor of our 40th anniversary, please join us to celebrate and to learn how local educators are using Rethinking Schools in their work.

We are gathering on Monday October 5th at the offices of the Workers Defense Project (5604 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78723) at 5:30 PM CST.

Sponsors:

Angela Valenzuela: Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, UT

Anne Lewis: Independent Filmmaker, UT-Austin Professor of Practice, TSEU-CWA 6186 Executive Board Member 

Andrew Gonzalez: Former AISD Social Studies Teacher, Current Austin ISD Trustee, PhD Student at the University of Texas at Austin

Jesse S Gainer: Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, TSU

Nancy Valdez-Gainer: Professor (TSU), Director of The Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award

Courtney Wai: Teacher, Prentiss Charney Fellow, Education and Public Programs Manager, Densho

Ellen Bravo: Author and Activist

Larry Miller: Retired Teacher, Editor of Rethinking Schools

The program will include a short history of the work of Rethinking Schools (RS). Andrew Gonzalez, a Trustee of AISD will talk about his use of Rethinking Schools in the classroom as a social studies teacher. Nancy Valdez-Gainer and Jess Gainer will speak about their experience in a study group based on one of RS’s most popular books, Teaching For Black Lives. Courtney Wai will talk about her work in South Texas, creating curriculum connecting a World War 2 internment camp and the Chicano civil rights movement based in Crystal City, Texas.

Please RSVP to Larry Miller at Larry@rethinkingschools.org

 

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